Seattle Land Use Code blog has a long and valuable post on the tools and ingredient that would help move TOD forward in Washington State. While you’re reading the post keep SLU and Yesler Terrace in mind. I think both of these project provide an interesting lens to view the post through. I’ve spent a […]

Scott Gutierrez has the story: [The] opening date [is] now pegged in early 2022 or 2023, Sound Transit’s governing board was informed Thursday. The extension of light rail from Seattle to the Eastside was planned to open in 2021. It would open at the latest completion date if Sound Transit opts to tunnel through downtown […]

If I had a comfortable job at the Seattle Times, I’d be interested in any regulatory barriers that blocked low-cost competing business models like Craigslist or PubliCola. If I ran an encyclopedia company, I’d be supportive of regulatory hurdles to operating an organization like Wikipedia. And if I were an established restaurant owner, I’d probably […]

The faux-war between ‘cyclists’ and ‘drivers’ has gotten depressingly out of control, even though it is being fought almost entirely in the media. The 900+ comments in Danny Westneat’s recent Seattle Times column (“What’s With All the Bike Bitterness?”) reveal that the mutual acrimony has grown past the absurd into a parody of itself. A simple truth: […]

by TIM BOND Last night Sound Transit held an open house for the Roosevelt Station, which is expected to add 8,000 boardings by 2030. STB reported on the design of the station yesterday, knocking it for not having any potential for TOD in the station footprint. While that certainly is a disappointment, we do have […]

I don’t have much to add to this graph. Politicians in our nation’s Capitol Building make a big deal of the need to become more competitive in business, especially vis-a-vis China and other emerging markets. Then at the same time I look at graphs like this (from here via here) and wonder what exactly their […]

The Tunnel Referendum ballot language has been released. City Council President Richard Conlin says tunnel referendum is about nothing. Does the referendum language make the situation worse for Seattle? What is the referendum really about? I-90 LRT lawsuit comes back to life to Kittitas county. Zebigo, a ride-sharing site, has launched. Pedestrian deaths are a national […]

Federal Way’s city council has passed a resolution urging Sound Transit to build light rail all the way to the city rather than curtailing the line due to budgetary constraints brought on by the recession. Federal Way representatives will be at a Sound Transit board meeting later today to discuss the resolution. Light rail to […]

Sound Transit presented some station circulation and design renderings to the Seattle Design Commission last week, showing how the planned Roosevelt station could look. The station entrances will be located on the blocks between NE 65th St to NE 67th St and 12th Ave to Roosevelt Way, taking up roughly the eastern quarter of both […]

21,870 weekday, 14,026 Saturday, 12,749 Sunday. This is up from March, though that had to be revised downward by 30/weekday to 21,311/14,139/8,881. On a completely unrelated note, don’t feed the trolls.

Seattle’s Department of Transportation has an alphabet soup of committees exploring various transportation problems. The Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee III (CTAC III) is tasked with matching funding sources to all the various transportation projects in the various master plans, as well as basic road maintenance needs. If you’re a Seattle resident, I encourage you to […]

Metro’s 40-foot Orion VII Next Generation hybrid diesel-electric buses began carrying passengers on Monday. The restyled New Flyer articulated (DE60LFR) buses entered service a few weeks ago. Both of these buses feature the new seats we reported last month. They are low-floor and have automated stop announcements powered by GPS. These 170 Orions are the […]

Today the Times featured a front page, above the fold story about OneBusAway. Most of the story is essentially about how awesome it is, which most OBA users already know, but at the end of the story is some new and uncertain news. … The timing couldn’t be worse, but now the future of OneBusAway […]

Any Link riders through the Valley have no doubt noticed the monolithic Station at Othello Park going up for what seemed like forever. Well, it’s done*, and the Seattle Times wrote it up: Other developers will judge the Station at Othello Park’s success by how much rent it can charge and how quickly it fills […]

Both Roosevelt and Brooklyn Stations have reached the 30% design stage and will have a new round of public meetings. Sound Transit will hold an open house for Roosevelt on May 26th, 6 pm at the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center. The 30% design Open House for Brooklyn Station will occur June 9th, 6pm, at the Hotel Deca. […]

by TIM BOND On Tuesday Sound Transit held an open house for Northgate Station. Northgate Station is the northernmost station of North Link, which will stop at Roosevelt and Brooklyn stations before connecting to U-Link. This $1.35 billion (2010 dollars) ST2-funded extension is expected to open in 2021. Northgate station alone is expected to add […]

STB recently obtained from Sound Transit per-station boarding statistics for both June-October and October-February. This continues the series from the first half of 2010. A cursory glance at the numbers shows little qualitative difference between the first data set and the next two, so I think the analysis back then still stands. The June-October period […]

Seattle Channel Video can be played in Flash Player 9 and up Update 5/20/11 – Archived video now available. In case you can’t make it but would like to watch the Seattle Channel will be streaming the presentation live starting at 6:30. If you would like to attend information is here.